The automatic generation of computer programs is one of the main applications with
practical relevance in the field of evolutionary computation. With program synthesis …

In recent years, the rise of advanced artificial intelligence technologies has had a profound
impact on many fields, including education and research. One such technology is ChatGPT …

To support software developers in finding and fixing software bugs, several automated
program repair techniques have been introduced. Given a test suite, standard methods …

GitHub and OpenAI recently launched Copilot, an" AI pair programmer" that utilizes the
power of Natural Language Processing, Static Analysis, Code Synthesis, and Artificial …

Automatic program synthesis is a long-lasting dream in software engineering. Recently, a
promising Deep Learning (DL) based solution, called Copilot, has been proposed by …

Advances in natural language processing have resulted in large language models (LLMs)
that can generate code and code explanations. In this paper, we report on our experiences …

Software engineering research has always being concerned with the improvement of code
completion approaches, which suggest the next tokens a developer will likely type while …

This empirical study investigates the effectiveness of pair programming with GitHub Copilot
in comparison to human pair-programming. Through an experiment with 21 participants we …